Sump
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Sump may refer to: * An infiltration basin used to manage surface runoff water and recharge underground aquifers * Sump (cave), a permanently flooded section of a cave, where an underground flow of water exits the cave into the earth such that the caver must submerge under water to reach the other side * the lowest point in a basement, which collects water that enters from outside and can be moved back out with a sump pump * the sump at the bottom of an internal combustion engine, where oil pools ** dry sump in racing motorcycles and piston aircraft engines ** wet sump * Sump (aquarium) * A sump section below the mouthpiece of a diving snorkel * the sump in a nuclear power plant's reactor housing that collects any overflow of primary loop coolant * In a shaft sinking, the water handling facility of the mine often at its lowest point * the bilge of a boat * the vitreous humour, which serves a minor role as a metabolic sump of the human eye * a grenade sump in a foxhole * the sump, the center of the cosmos in medieval cosmology
Sump may refer to: An infiltration basin used to manage surface runoff water and recharge underground aquifers Sump (cave), a permanently flooded section of a cave, where an underground flow of water exits the cave into the earth such that the caver must submerge under water to reach the other side the lowest point in a basement, which collects water that enters from outside and can be moved back out with a sump pump the sump at the bottom of an internal combustion engine, where oil pools dry sump in racing motorcycles and piston aircraft engines wet sump Sump (aquarium) A sump section below the mouthpiece of a diving snorkel the sump in a nuclear power plant's reactor housing that collects any overflow of primary loop coolant In a shaft sinking, the water handling facility of the mine often at its lowest point the bilge of a boat the vitreous humour, which serves a minor role as a metabolic sump of the human eye a grenade sump in a foxhole the sump, the center of the cosmos in medieval cosmology ==See also==
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